News tagged with protein myosin

Possible new blood test to diagnose heart attacks

Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine researchers are reporting a possible new blood test to help diagnose heart attacks.

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Sep 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study finds protein critical to breast cancer cell proliferation, migration

Researchers have found that a protein linked to cell division and migration and tied to increased cell proliferation in ovarian tumors is also present at high levels in breast cancer specimens and cell lines. The protein, ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Single drug and soft environment can increase platelet production: research

Humans produce billions of clot-forming platelets every day, but there are times when there aren't enough of them, such as with certain diseases or during invasive surgery. Now, University of Pennsylvania researchers have ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Nano-motor with a light switch: Light-triggered myosin allows real-time study of cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- Molecular "motors" are at the root of most biological movement. They propel cell components, whole cells, and even our muscles on command. Barbara Imperiali and a team from the Massachusetts ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Researchers reshape basic understanding of cell division

By tracking the flow of information in a cell preparing to split, Johns Hopkins scientists have identified a protein mechanism that coordinates and regulates the dynamics of shape change necessary for division of a single ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 05, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists uncover new mechanism of memory formation

Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have discovered a mechanism that plays a critical role in the formation of long-term memory. The findings shed substantial new light on aspects of how memory ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Aug 25, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Cellular Workouts Strengthen Endothelial Cells' Grasp

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Pennsylvania bioengineers have demonstrated that the cells that line blood vessels respond to mechanical forces -- the microscopic tugging and pulling on cellular structures ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 13, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

'Relaxation' a critical step in vertebrate brain development

(PhysOrg.com) -- Normal vertebrate brain ventricle formation relies upon the stretchiness or "relaxation" of the neuroepithelium, which is regulated by the motor protein myosin. This process was discovered ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 12, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Potential new heart attack biomarker uncovered

Though they remain a leading killer, heart attacks can be effectively treated provided they can be rapidly diagnosed following initial onset of symptoms. In a study appearing in this month's Molecular and Cellular Proteomics, resear ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Small mechanical forces have big impact on embryonic stem cells

Applying a small mechanical force to embryonic stem cells could be a new way of coaxing them into a specific direction of differentiation, researchers at the University of Illinois report. Applications for force-directed ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Oct 18, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Autopilot guides proteins in brain

Proteins go everywhere in the cell and do all sorts of work, but a fundamental question has eluded biologists: How do the proteins know where to go?

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Apr 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Why 'lazy Susan' has a weak heart

When young, apparently healthy athletes suddenly collapse, it can be due to hereditary cardiac disease. Researchers at the Heidelberg University Hospital have now discovered a genetic modification that leads to cardiac weakness ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Mar 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study offers clues to beating hearing loss

Researchers at the University of Leeds have made a significant step forward in understanding the causes of some forms of deafness.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Mar 04, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Biologists learn structure, mechanism of powerful 'molecular motor' in virus

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have discovered the atomic structure of a powerful "molecular motor" that packages DNA into the head segment of some viruses during their assembly, an essential step in their ability ...

Biology /

created Dec 24, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0